[Python-Dev] Generalised String Coercion

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Aug 8 09:21:41 CEST 2005


Bob Ippolito wrote:
> It's UTF-8 by default, I highly doubt many people bother to change it.

I think your doubts are unfounded. Many Japanese people change it to
EUC-JP (I believe), as UTF-8 support doesn't work well for them (or
atleast didn't use to).

Regards,
Martin


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